Clothes-drainer.



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CLOTHES DRAINER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1913.

Patented July 14,1914.

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CLOTHES-DRAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 10, 1913. Serial No. 772,836.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. MERRITT, a citizen of the. United States, residing at Fargo, in the county of Cass and State of North Dakota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Drainers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to clothes drainers and it consists in the novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide a drainer adapted to be used in combination with a wash-boiler for holding clothes in the boiler elevated above the bottom thereof so that the water may drain back into the boiler from the clothes. Also the drainer may contain the clothes during the boiling operation, at which time the drainer is lowered and permitted to rest on the bottom of the boiler.

A further object of the invention is to provide a drainer of the character indicated with hinged bottom sections. Handle members are connected with the said hinged bottom sections and are adapted to cooperate with handle members provided upon the body of the drainer whereby the said bot tom sections are held in closed position when the drainer is in a boiler.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a perspective view of the drainer. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same.

The drainer comprises a body 1 which is approximately elliptical in plan and which consists of a frame 2 which constitutes the lower edge of the body and. foraminous sides and ends 3. A reinforcing hoop 4 is located approximately midway between the upper and lower edges of the sides and ends 3 and serves as a brace for the material of which the said sides and ends are composed.

Bail handles 5 are located at the ends of the body 1 and are secured at their ends to the end portions of the frame 2 and extend up along the end section 3 of the body. Hooks 6 are formed at the opposite side portions of the bail handles 5 and the said hooks have their bills inwardly disposed with relation to the body. Hooks 7 are also formed at the opposite side portions of the bail handles 5 above the hooks 6. The said hooks 7 have their bills or ends outwardly disposed and the said hooks 7 are adapted to be caught over the upper edges of a washboiler when the drainer is positioned in the same and supported above the bottom thereof.

Patented July 14, 1914.

Bottom sections 8 are hingedly connected with the framefZ and are made from foraminous material. Hook members 9 are pivotally connected with the bottom sections 8 and eyes 10 are engaged with the said members 9. Links 11 are engaged with the eyes 10 and in turn engage eyes 12-which are adapted to be engaged with the lower hooks 6 when the bottom sections 8 are held in closed position at the bottom of the body 1. Bails 13 connect the eyes 12 at the same end of the body 1 together and may be used as means for connecting the eyes with the hooks 6 0r disconnecting the said eyes from said hooks.

lin operation the drainer is used as follows: The eyes hooks 6 and the clothes are placed in the body 1 upon the bottom sections 8 which are at such time held in closed position. The body 1 is then lowered into a wash-boiler and the said body 1 mayrest upon the bottom of the boiler. After the clothes have been boiled and it is desired to drain the 12 are engaged with the same prior to removing them from the upper edge of the boiler and thus the body 1 and its contents are held in an elevated position in the boiler and the water may drain from the clothes back into the boiler. After the draining operation has ceased the body 1 and its contents may be lifted from the boiler and positioned over a tub or other receptacle. By using the bails 13 the eyes 12 may then be disengaged from the hook 6 and the bottom sections 8 may be permitted to swing in a downward direction whereby the clothes may be dropped into a tub or other receptacle. Therefore it will be seen that a drainer of simple structure is provided and that the parts may be easily and readily regulated for handling clothes during the timethat they are removed from the boiler and placed into a receptacle.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is A clothes drainer comprising a body, bottom sections hinged to the lower edges of the sides of the body, bail handles attached to the body and provided at their opposite sides with hooks some of which are and bails pivotally connecting the eyes at 10 inwardly disposed and others outwardly disthe same end of the body together.

posed with relation to the body, members In testimony whereof I affix my signapivotally connected with the ends of the ture in'presence of two witnesses.

hinged bottom sections at points between the hinged and free edges thereof and disposed JAMES MER'RITT within the body, eyes connected with said Witnesses:

members and adapted to engage the in- JOHN Po'LLooK,

wardly disposed hooks of the bail handles BRUCE POLLOQK.

Copies of this patent may he obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of fatents,

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